GeForce 6500 and GeForce GT 120 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 6500
GeForce GT 120 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
738 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
117.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
11.81
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
16.13 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A